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Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwater

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Barry Goldwater
Age: 89 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: May 29
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Barry Morris Goldwater
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We Americans understand freedom we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and its people are freedom's models in a searching world. We can be freedom's missionaries in a doubting world. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.
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To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.
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Without the National Federation of Republican Women, there would be no Republican Party.
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Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: One can disagree without being disagreeable.
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There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.
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Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?
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You don't have to be straight to be in the military you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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The big thing is to make this country - quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens.
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When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
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I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
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We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
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